Alexander Kendrick, 80, a journalist who covered...

Alexander Kendrick, 80, a journalist who covered war, famine and the birth of Israel and wrote a biography of Edward R. Murrow, died of a heart attack Friday in Philadelphia. Mr Kendrick worked with Mr. Murrow at CBS and wrote the biography "Prime Time" in 1969, followed by "The Wound Within," an analysis of American policy during the Vietnam War, in 1974.